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'This book makes a very significant contribution to housing and urban studies. Extremely readable, making complex theory understandable, and theorists accessible, it is articulate and well-written - a pleasure to read.' Dr Quintin Bradley, Leeds Beckett University 'The author successfully combines a visionary idealism with a realistic assessment of limits, conditions and barriers that have confined us to a few glimpses of how utopian collectivism and commons could provide a real alternative to the historic statist tradition of public housing.' Professor David Mullins, Emeritus Professor of Housing Policy, University of Birmingham 'Reconstructing Public Housing is ideologically inspiring, although politically fluid... characterized by a consistent desire to flit between pragmatism and radicalism.' Hamish Kallin, Space and Polity 'This monograph represents a significant advancement in theorizing urban housing commons, alongside a political ambition for both the community-led housing sector and academic Housing Studies. Thompson demonstrates the potential of centring housing within political solutions for the multiple, interrelated crises of social reproduction evident in contemporary England, at every scale.' Martha Mingay, Housing Studies

"'This book makes a very significant contribution to housing and urban studies. Extremely readable, making complex theory understandable, and theorists accessible, it is articulate and well-written - a pleasure to read.' Dr Quintin Bradley, Leeds Beckett University 'The author successfully combines a visionary idealism with a realistic assessment of limits, conditions and barriers that have confined us to a few glimpses of how utopian collectivism and commons could provide a real alternative to the historic statist tradition of public housing.' Professor David Mullins, Emeritus Professor of Housing Policy, University of Birmingham 'Reconstructing Public Housing is ideologically inspiring, although politically fluid… characterized by a consistent desire to flit between pragmatism and radicalism.' Hamish Kallin, Space and Polity 'This monograph represents a significant advancement in theorizing urban housing commons, alongside a political ambition for both the community-led housing sector and academic Housing Studies. Thompson demonstrates the potential of ""centring housing"" within political solutions for the multiple, interrelated crises of social reproduction evident in contemporary England, at every scale.' Martha Mingay, Housing Studies"

'This book makes a very significant contribution to housing and urban studies. Extremely readable, making complex theory understandable, and theorists accessible, it is articulate and well-written - a pleasure to read.' Dr Quintin Bradley, Leeds Beckett University 'The author successfully combines a visionary idealism with a realistic assessment of limits, conditions and barriers that have confined us to a few glimpses of how utopian collectivism and commons could provide a real alternative to the historic statist tradition of public housing.' Professor David Mullins, Emeritus Professor of Housing Policy, University of Birmingham

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Matthew Thompson, is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool.

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